The St. Johns herald., 1887-11-10
THE OUTBREAK AT YUMA.
Full Particulars of the Tragedy at
 the Territorial Penitentiary.

The Tucson Citizen, anxious to lay before its readers true state ment of the frightful tragedy so recently enacted in the Territorial Penitentiary, dispatched Mir. A. B. Tenny to the scene of the conflict. He returned last evening and gives the following particulars of the brief, but bloody battle, in which four out of seven mutinous con- victs were killed outright, and an- other severely, if not mortally wounded, and Hon. Thomas Gates, superintendent of the institution, dangerously, if not fatally stabbed,
 On Thursday morning as Super intendent Gates was leaving the prison by the north sally port, to oversee some men at work, as was his custom, he was seized by Li- brado Pueblo, a thirty year convict, who attempted to pinion his arms behind him with a handkerchief, and at the same time forced him outside the prison walls. Gates resolutely struggled for his freedom and attempted to force Puebla to one side in order to give Guard Hartley, who was stationed on the water tank with rife about thirty yards away, a chance to shoot with out being himself hit. Puebl;s, armed with a knife, held it threat eningly above Gates head, and me- nacingly said, "Sabe this"
 In the struggle with Gates, Puebla was assisted by a fellow-convict named Lopez, but the latter, sud- denly releasing his hold ran, with companion, to the house of the su- perintendent, where the Secretary of the Prison Board, Mir. Rule and wife were, and demanded arms, but not finding any they turned and ran towards the office, where break ing open a desk they secured re- volver and ran back to assist Puebla, whom Gates had in the meantime partially turned around. This was Hartley's chance, and he improved it by shooting Puebla through the leg. The latter then drove his knife into Gates right shoulder, the blade passing down between the collar bone and shoulder blade, into the lung, and was being pressed home for all it was worth, when Secretary Rule, who, with his revolver, had followed Lopez out of the house, in his haste to assist Gates, although at that time unaware that the latter was wounded, dealt Puebla a terrific blow over the head, cutting it open. Seeing as he thought, Puebla par tially fall, he turned his attention to others. At this moment Lopez with the pistol he had secured in the office returned to Puebla's as- sistance and placing the revolver against Gates head, pulled the trigger, but Gates by desperate effort, had freed his left arm, and managed to knock the weapon up as it exploded, so that instead of injuring him, the bullet passed through and between the bones of Puebla's left arm.
 Rule, seeing this, again went to the relief of Gates, but was met by Lopez, who at the point of his pis- tol, forced him towards the office, and finally shot at, but missed him. Lopez, thinking he had killed Rule, again turned towards where Puebla and Gates were struggling, but as he did so, Rule, who was uninjured shot him through the right side. Lopez feil, with his head near the office porch, and Rule, believing him dead, turned and shot at Vas quez, who was running towards Gates and Puebla At this moment, he was also shot by Guard Hartley, who, from his point of vantage, was doing most efficient work. As Vasquez fell, Rule turned towards the office to get more cartridges, but as he did so, Lopez, who was lying on his face few feet away, holding his pistol in both hands, shot at, but again. missed him, the bullet hattening itself against the